Heart & Vascular Health: Living With

  • Replacing Your ICD

    04/05/06, Johns Hopkins University

    An internal cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is a device that's implanted to treat patients with life-threatening disturbances in their heart rhythm.…

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  • Does Bypass Surgery Lead to Cognitive Decline?

    03/19/06, Johns Hopkins University

    Are you worried that having bypass surgery may slow your thinking? A decline in cognitive function after coronary artery bypass surgery has generally…

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  • Live Longer After Cardiac Rehab

    03/01/06, Johns Hopkins University

    What can you expect from a cardiac rehab program? A recent analysis examined the findings from 63 studies of cardiac rehabilitation programs that…

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  • Is Sex Safe After a Heart Attack?

    01/28/06, Johns Hopkins University

    Have you held back from having sex after a heart attack because you're afraid it will trigger another one? Studies have shown that many people have…

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  • Still Smoking After a Heart Attack?

    01/06/06, Johns Hopkins University

    You would think the threat of a painful and life-threatening heart attack would be enough to encourage all cigarette smokers to stop. Not so. A recent…

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  • Heat Wave Horror

    08/04/06, Johns Hopkins University

    Surprisingly, 53 percent of these heat-related deaths occurred in people between the ages of 15 and 64.

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  • Enron Example: Stress and Cardiac Death

    07/14/06, Johns Hopkins University

    Were we really surprised to read that Kenneth Lay died suddenly of what the newspapers called "a massive coronary" July 5 at age 64?

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